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Former President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday likened Vladimir Putin's United Russia party to the worst of the communists he once led and helped bring down, and said Russia is today a country where the parliament and the judiciary are not fully free.

Three little-known Chinese/Taiwanese artists named Dudu, Li Tiezi, and Zhang An have created the oil painting – titled Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante – in 2006 depicting 103 figures from world history in striking detail.